Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal.
David Shields
TraditionTongueHiddenDancing
There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
Randy Pausch
MeElephantDieTraditionYouSay
My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches.
Christian de Duve
EducationSchoolTraditionMoreBeen
Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.
Joe Bob Briggs
MenTraditionClubJokeOutAlmost
The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.
Nick Clegg
JusticePoliticalTraditionParty
The tradition of Umuganda is a beautiful and inspiring one. It connects people to their surrounds and creates a responsible community.
Clemantine Wamariya
CommunityBeautifulPeopleTradition
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
John Greenleaf Whittier
RomanticBeardTraditionYoungWears
There's a long tradition in this country of questioning generals.
Jake Tapper
TraditionLongCountryQuestioning
A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent.
Brett Kavanaugh
HistoryConstitutionJudgeTradition
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
John Cornyn
PoliticsReligionTraditionLong
It's such a shame, really, because we were known for our country of saints and scholars, and we grew up with such a great tradition with St. Patrick, and he is the one who brought Christianity to Ireland, and we celebrate St. Patrick's day every single year, but there's very few practising Catholics or practising Christians.
Katie Taylor
GreatDayCelebrateTraditionYear
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
Arthur Erickson
TraditionCraftEuropeIndustry
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
Maxine Hong Kingston
ChangeDieTraditionDownPureMyth
I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.
Ishmael Beah
GodBelieveTraditionI BelieveGods
The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.
August Wilson
WorkAmericaTraditionInformation
For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition.
Robert Lepage
MeTraditionAliveWillAlwaysMuch
In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.
Frank Miller
WorkWorldThinkDieTraditionBad
Tradition is the illusion of permanance.
Woody Allen
TraditionIllusion
City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away and, in the great tradition of the Cheshire Cat, there's nothing left but Peter Martins' smile.
Robert Gottlieb
SmileGreatValueCityTradition
I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
Al Franken
I AmFightingTraditionJust Because
If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.
Alfred Brendel
TraditionMasterpieceTellBelongHe
Everybody loves Wimbledon, with all the tradition and everything else.
Angelique Kerber
TraditionEverythingEverybodyElse
'Robopocalypse' joins a proud tradition of techno-apocalyptic tales, stretching from high-flying Icarus, to Frankenstein's monster, and to many a giant radioactive creature who has crashed the streets of Tokyo. And then, of course, there's the Terminator.
Daniel H. Wilson
ProudTraditionTokyoMonsterGiant
I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.
Philip Johnson
LifeMyselfMy LifeTraditionCall
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